Who hasn’t heard someone say: I’m not fashion! Or contrarily, I will die If i’m not dressed fashionably!, But there are cases in which this obsession literally kills or leaves permanent damage to the person, and we are not talking exclusively about mental health.

This may seem absurd but has been happening since the stone age, but who’s to blame?. Some cultures have fabricated real horrors with the bodies of its citizens especially women that to be attractive have been subjected to atrocities and unbearable pain in order to please the members of the opposite sex, and we are not  only talking about gaining or losing weight, but to deform their bodies with inhumane torture to become compliant with specific standards of beauty that most cases are based on physical deformities, the more distorted, more beautiful they are.

Until recently the corset was the most elegant and seductive sexy item  that a woman could wear  to enhance her  curves and look like a wasp, hence the phrase have a wasp waist, but how many back injuries and malformations did this sinister device for male pleasure cause ? Fortunately not all women had to wear it,  but in some cultures being born a women implies not being able to choose. For example, the giraffe women, who belong to a tribe called the Karen in the Burma border, where if you are lucky to be born on a full moon on Wednesday you are “granted” the privilege of extending you neck with rings throughout your entire life . When they are weaned, they begin to put a thick ring around your neck to make it stretch, in adulthood, your neck is three times longer than the  normal ones and yes, are very respected, but also you can suffer brutally. If they commit adultery, her husband takes off the neck rings and the women dies instantly form a neck fracture by not having muscles in that area.

In the Chinese culture, in the past  a tiny foot was a tremendously beautiful and above all elegant sign in  a Chinese woman. Today it is still somewhat anti female to be born with a large size feet in the world.  Before the beauty of small feet was sought  and handkerchiefs were  tied to the toes and strongly wrapped around  the foot bridge reaching the heels to prevent growth so they can fit small-sized shoes. The feet were deformed but simply not appreciated due to the tiny shoes

Today it is fashionable to wear size 36 and anorexia is  leaving a large footprint in this absurd fashion for a few, when we think that in the world there are three billion women, and only about twenty are super models. This should make us think before we mistreat our bodies by a canon of beauty that only a few dictate. We all have freedom of choice. So don’t be ridiculous.

Isabel Pérez

Therefore, if you want to enjoy your natural or unnatural beauty rent apartments in Milan The city of fashion, beauty, culture and body care.

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Translated by: Marc
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Until the 19th of June, the Palazzo Reale is holding exhibition Impresionista: Capolavori della Clark Collecction, a collection of 73 art works belonging to the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute of Massachussets, which includes the French artists of the 19th century; Pierre Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Édouard  Manet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Bonnard, Carot, Gauguin, Millet, Sisley; Toulouse Lautrec, Bouguereau, and Gérôme, amongst others.

Milan is the first stop in a two year tour of various different European countries for the Institute’s impressionism collection. The show focuses on the innovation of the artistic style, particularly in the manipulation of light in neo-classical painting, as seen in each and every 19th century painting selected for the exhibition.

Impressionism developed in the second half of the 19th century, when Louis Leroy wrote a review of the work Impresión: soleil levant (1872) by Claude Monet, remarking that “upon viewing the piece, I thought my spectacles were dirty. What was this canvas representing? The painting didn’t have a top nor bottom…Impression! There was impression…A mere sketch is more complete than this seascape.” The term for the art movement was thereby coined – an art movement which sought to break from classicism and pursue a kind of freedom over traditional beauty.

Natural light, lanscapes, and nature would come to be the source of inspiration for impressionist paintings. A precursor of this artistic current was Édouard Manet, whose works Breakfast on the grass and The bar of Folies-Bergère demonstrates a play with light, as well as more loose, free brushstrokes which didn’t seek to hide the canvas or the materials – features which would come to define impressionism.

The appearance of new art materials and pigments, a product of advances in industry, would be highly instrumental in the new styles and tones of oil paintings, bringing a deeper purity of colour, more shades and colour saturation, which up until then, had been impossible to achieve. This experimentation with saturation would also be adopted by the Fovists, who would place emphasis on the free, extreme use of colour – as seen in the work of Henri Matisse.

There may not be a specific aesthetic concept which unifies impressionism, there are certain patterns which go beyond the working of light, colour and technique. Degas is the most complex painter – a perfectionist of the movement. Monet, as a founder of the impressionist movement expressed certain codes of colour and light in his paintings. Manet continued to be a studio painter, so his paintings don’t have the freshness of other impressionists.

For more information http://www.impressionistimilano.it/

Nancy Guzman

It’s very rare to get the chance to see great art works like these together. If you are renting one of the apartments in Milan don’t forget to go down to the Palazzo Reale and find out all about the Impressionist movement.

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Translated by: Poppy
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